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Forbes.com / View Original DeM Banter: We can get upset, we can argue, we can pout, but in the end... this is the view of the USAF from several different sources. The good news... we have an incredible "greater good" leader at the helm...the bad news...there is a lot of work to do...and a good …
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blogs.hbr.org Who is the future leader? One who asks the right questions or one who provides the right answers? A shepherd or a catalyst? The one in the driver's seat or the navigator who sets the direction? Would a future leader be a financial architect, a social architect, or the green architect? The dark clouds …
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You can't react and create at the same time -Jeff Goins I heard this comment several days ago on a podcast... I love a powerful quote and the good ones just stick with me and I find myself rolling it around in my brain for days...just like a sour apple Blow Pop (remember those?). I …
View Original / Fast Company DeM Banter: Keep Calm and Carry On... note to self... Before people bond with you, they will want to know you are dependable and predictable; calmness contributes to those perceptions, and agitation and stress send the opposite message. Staying calm is also critically important in providing opportunities for risk taking. …
TheDailyBeast.com August 4, 2012 President Obama's strategy in Libya helped depose Qaddafi in short order. But P.J. Crowley says the same tactics won't work in Syria--and the crisis will only get worse. The resignation of Kofi Annan, the U.N. and Arab League special envoy for Syria, made official what was long ago apparent. His six-point …
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view original / entrepreneur.com As an entrepreneur, you are responsible for building an effective team and enabling your employees to do their best work. To do that successfully, you need to cultivate empathy, or the ability to imagine yourself in another's shoes. "For leaders in particular, empathy means understanding how you come across to others and how you're perceived …
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Great new work from that up and coming new teen poet... Luke DeMarco... great stuff! Ode To Cheese.
DeM Banter: Can you hear the applause? Why are we not hearing more of this debate and dialog? Too complex? There are issues, concepts, strategies that have to be addressed and wrestled with. This is not easy by any stretch, but I don't see it going away anytime soon... do you? Washington Post August 5, …
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ForeignPolicy.com DeM Banter: And why do we have these issues? Would be very interested in any thoughts... August 2, 2012 Thought Cloud One of the biggest misunderstandings about the civilian-military gap is that it is cultural -- the national security version of the red state-blue state divide. But the distance between those in and out …
Continue reading "The real problem with the civilian-military gaps : By Rosa Brooks"
DeM Banter: Always interesting and still pondering what this will looking like in 5 to 10 years. If the architecture gets exploited...think of the investment lost? Where will technology take these aircraft? What about the continuing moral implications? London Times August 2, 2012 Pg. 27 'PlayStation pilots' are taking over from the Top Guns as …
